[PERFORM] query problem

2004-10-13 Thread Robin Ericsson
Hi, I sent this to general earlier but I was redirected to performance. The query have been running ok for quite some time, but after I did a vacuum on the database, it's very very slow. This IN-query is only 2 ids. Before the problem that in was a subselect-query returning around 6-7 ids. The ta

Re: [PERFORM] query problem

2004-10-13 Thread ken
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 02:21, Robin Ericsson wrote: > Hi, > > I sent this to general earlier but I was redirected to performance. > > The query have been running ok for quite some time, but after I did a > vacuum on the database, it's very very slow. Did you do a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE on the datab

Re: [PERFORM] query problem

2004-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
Robin Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I sent this to general earlier but I was redirected to performance. Actually, I think I suggested that you consult the pgsql-performance archives, where this type of problem has been hashed out before. See for instance this thread: http://archives.postg

Re: [PERFORM] query problem

2004-10-13 Thread Robin Ericsson
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 11:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robin Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I sent this to general earlier but I was redirected to performance. > > Actually, I think I suggested that you consult the pgsql-performance > archives, where this type of problem has been hashed ou

[PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-13 Thread Aaron Mulder
All, My company (Chariot Solutions) is sponsoring a day of free PostgreSQL training by Bruce Momjian (one of the core PostgreSQL developers). The day is split into 2 sessions (plus a Q&A session): * Mastering PostgreSQL Administration * PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Registratio

[PERFORM] Opteron vs RHAT

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Clark) writes: >>As for "vendor support" for Opteron, that sure looks like a >>trainwreck... If you're going through IBM, then they won't want to >>respond to any issues if you're not running a "bog-standard" RHAS/RHES >>release from Red Hat. And that, on Opteron, is prepo

Re: [PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-13 Thread Bryan Encina
> All, > My company (Chariot Solutions) is sponsoring a day of free > PostgreSQL training by Bruce Momjian (one of the core PostgreSQL > developers). The day is split into 2 sessions (plus a Q&A session): > > * Mastering PostgreSQL Administration > * PostgreSQL Performance Tuning > >

[Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] query problem]

2004-10-13 Thread Robin Ericsson
Sent this to wrong list. Forwarded Message From: Robin Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] query problem Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:27:20 +0200 On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 18:01 +0200, Robin Ericsson wrote: > Using exact timestamp makes th

Re: [PERFORM] Opteron vs RHAT

2004-10-13 Thread Matt Clark
> >>trainwreck... If you're going through IBM, then they won't want to > >>respond to any issues if you're not running a > "bog-standard" RHAS/RHES > >>release from Red Hat. ...> To be fair, we keep on actually running into things that > _can't_ be backported, like fibrechannel drivers that

[PERFORM] futex results with dbt-3

2004-10-13 Thread Mark Wong
Hi guys, I have some DBT-3 (decision support) results using Gavin's original futex patch fix. It's on out 8-way Pentium III Xeon systems in our STP environment. Definitely see some overall throughput performance on the tests, about 15% increase, but not change with respect to the number of conte

Re: [PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-13 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:23:47 -0700, Bryan Encina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow, that's good stuff, too bad there's no one doing stuff like that in the > Los Angeles area. > > -b That makes two of us. Hanging out with Tom, Bruce, and others at OSCON 2002 was one of the most informative and fun

Re: [PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-13 Thread Josh Berkus
Aaron, > That makes two of us. Hanging out with Tom, Bruce, and others at OSCON > 2002 was one of the most informative and fun times I've had. That and > I could really stand to brush up on my Postgres basics You're thinking of Jan. Tom wasn't at OSCON. ;-) -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Datab

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/9/2004 7:20 AM, Kevin Brown wrote: Christopher Browne wrote: Increasing the number of cache buffers _is_ likely to lead to some slowdowns: - Data that passes through the cache also passes through kernel cache, so it's recorded twice, and read twice... Even worse, memory that's used for th

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/14/2004 12:22 AM, Greg Stark wrote: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Which would require that shared memory is not allowed to be swapped out, and that is allowed in Linux by default IIRC, not to completely distort the entire test. Well if it's getting swapped out then it's clearly not be

Re: [PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: > Aaron, > > > That makes two of us. Hanging out with Tom, Bruce, and others at OSCON > > 2002 was one of the most informative and fun times I've had. That and > > I could really stand to brush up on my Postgres basics > > You're thinking of Jan. Tom wasn't at OSCON. ;-) Ah

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Greg Stark
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which would require that shared memory is not allowed to be swapped out, and > that is allowed in Linux by default IIRC, not to completely distort the entire > test. Well if it's getting swapped out then it's clearly not being used effectively. There are A

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/13/2004 11:52 PM, Greg Stark wrote: Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 10/8/2004 10:10 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) wrote: >> I've been trying to peg the "sweet spot" for shared memory using >> OSDL's equipment. With Jan's new ARC patch, I was expecti

Re: [PERFORM] futex results with dbt-3

2004-10-13 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 04:57, Mark Wong wrote: > I have some DBT-3 (decision support) results using Gavin's original > futex patch fix. I sent an initial description of the futex patch to the mailing lists last week, but it never appeared (from talking to Marc I believe it exceeded the size limit

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Greg Stark
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/8/2004 10:10 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) wrote: > >> I've been trying to peg the "sweet spot" for shared memory using > >> OSDL's equipment. With Jan's new ARC patch, I was expecting that > >> the desired amoun